Some were active in civil rights groups like the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which initiated the Freedom Rides and was founded in 1942 on Mahatma Gandhi's principle of nonviolent protest.

The Freedom Rides, which began in May 1961 and ended late that year, were organized by CORE’s national director, James Farmer. The mission of the rides was to test compliance with two Supreme ...

Freedom Riders, from clockwise top left: Julia Aaron, Dave Dennis, Jean Thompson and Jerome Smith all were arrested in Jackson, Miss., in their efforts to desegregate bus terminals.

At the time of the Freedom Rides, Stokely Carmichael was a 19-year-old student at Howard University, the son of West Indian immigrants to New York City.

Among the less recognizable buildings slated for potential sale were several bearing the names of civil rights leaders, ...

Freedom Rider Fred Anderson disembarks from a Greyhound bus as a gathering of Freedom Riders and supporters ride on the bus through Northeast and East Bexar County to mark the historic 1961 civil ...

Known as the Thompson Sisters, Alice, Jean and Shirley were on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. They ...

On May 20, 1961, the Freedom Riders arrived in Montgomery and were attacked by a violent mob, despite the Freedom Riders themselves arriving unarmed and in a nonviolent fashion.